Nellie McKay Quotes
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You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
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I'm not super into sports.
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The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.
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You may confuse a lot of people when going against the grain of conventional thinking, and that's perfectly okay. As an entrepreneur, standing up for your vision to your family and friends might possibly be the best practice you will get for the life that awaits you.
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I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.
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I haven't gotten jobs because I'm famous or I have a big Twitter feed - it's primarily directors. People employ me because I'm right for the part. But then, everybody needs a bit of luck, being in the right place at the right time. You just gotta be in that place for that opportunity to come by.
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I'm just getting back into my songwriting groove. It's still pretty early. But I don't want to make 'Hero 2.' It's going to be different.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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I'm pretty indiscriminating, and I have awful taste, generally.
